Nathan Machoka

How to Secure Your Smartphone and Increase Privacy

Smartphones have become our diaries, wallets, entertainment, and personal safes. People use them for work, play, business, and everything in between. But is your smartphone data safe? And can hackers access your private information? Unfortunately, smartphones are seen as an easy target because they are mostly unprotected and provide a way into your private data. ...

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Smartphone security.

Love Conquers Everything: The Ancient Secret of Peaceful Living

When fear becomes central to your intellect, it may feel like your life revolves around one center. However, love conquers everything. Unfortunately, most of us forget that in the heat of things.  Fear can turn our lives into a place without happiness. Sometimes anxiety can creep in and go unrecognized until you’re entirely dilapidated. According ...

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A heart represents love.

5 Amazing Natural Hot Springs in Iceland

Hot springs are an amazing natural phenomenon in Iceland. The country has many scenic natural hot springs and geothermal hot baths. Currently, there are about 45 of them across the country. Some are free, others are not, and some are even swimmable. Why are natural hot springs in Iceland so special? Iceland is one of the ...

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Bathing in a hot spring.

How Anger Can Lead to Premature Aging

Everyone experiences negative emotions, but studies have shown that constant anger makes you age faster. Over time, people with high levels of hostility do themselves permanent physical harm. According to a study by psychologists Carsten Wrosch and Ute Kuntzman, permanently being angry is even more destructive than sadness. They believe that all emotions — including ...

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Being angry can give you a headache.

‘Landmarks: Poets, Portraits, and Landscapes of Modern Scotland’

The Landmarks: Poets, Portraits, and Landscapes of Modern Scotland exhibition was held at the Lillie Art Gallery in 2018. The exhibition was a significant collaborative effort by Scottish painters Alexander (Sandy) Moffat, Ruth Nicol, and poet Alan Riach.  The exhibition’s central theme was Sandy Moffat’s Poets’ Pub: portraits of seven famous mid-20th century Scottish poets. ...

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Moffat's 'Poet's Pub.'

Tiny Solar-Powered Devices Fly in the Wind Like Dandelion Seeds

The common dandelion is one of the most recognizable and widely-known species that uses wind dispersal. The wind is an accessible and practical dispersal strategy for many plants, and dandelion seeds can disperse up to 100 km away. That’s why University of Washington researchers based their tiny battery-free sensors on the same wind propagation principle. ...

Nathan Machoka

A dandelion-inspired sensor.

The Art of Self-Improvement Through Ancient Wisdom

Self-improvement or personal development is a goal you set to improve your status, knowledge, or character through your effort. Almost everyone wants to improve their self-worth, recognition, and respect in the modern, fast-paced era.  Even if you haven’t read any self-help books, you’ve heard of truisms like “be yourself” or “let go” in your workplace ...

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Self-improvement.

5 Easy Ways To Master a New Skill

Everyone wants to be better at something. Learning a new skill is essential for personal and professional development. If you wish to learn a new computer language, communication skills, or cooking, self-development is a slow process. Learning new skills can lead to career development, a higher salary, or better job opportunities. Besides the financial or ...

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Learning how to cook.

6 Practical Tips to Improve Your Mobile App User Experience

The mobile app user experience is one of the major deciding factors for a mobile app. So besides design, user interaction with your app is a critical part. UI refers to the screens, buttons, toggles, icons, and other visual elements you interact with when using a website, app, or other electronic devices. UX refers to ...

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Social media apps on a smartphone.

Melitta Bentz Set an Entrepreneurial Milestone for Women in 1908

Sometimes simple inventions can change the world. This is especially true for the coffee filter paper, invented by Frau Amalie Auguste Melitta Bentz 114 years ago in Germany.  If you’ve been at it for a while, working on your dream, and just can’t seem to find a breakthrough, then rest assured that all your efforts ...

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The Melitta Coffee Logo on a smartphone.